Media Coverage

Associate Professor L. S. Kim comments on modern teen shows and their iconography, focusing on the similar moments between teen shows throughout the past 25 years.

“Planets similar in size typically have a mass between roughly 6 and 12 times the mass of Earth,” explained Joseph Murphy, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz and co-author of the study. This “exoplanet oddity” as Murphy refers to it, may have an Earth-like core surrounded by an unusually thin, hydrogen-dominated atmosphere, or it…

Astrophysicist Joel Primack, Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said: “If ~1000 Starlink satellites were explosively destroyed, a debris chain reaction would create a lethal debris field” – a giant and deathly halo of “tiny missiles” that circles the Earth for generations into the future.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a feature story about "Sowing Seeds," an ongoing Museum of Art & History exhibit highlighting Filipino American history in the Pajaro Valley. The exhibition is the result of a prestigious $75,000 Public Humanities Projects: Exhibitions Planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to Watsonville Is In The Heart (WIITH),…

The study was led by Dr. Jenny Allen as a Griffith University Research Associate in collaboration with the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). Data were collected in 2018 and 2019 around the Western Antarctic Peninsula as part of a research grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs to Dr. Ari Friedlaender,…

According to a report by the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, Patrick Robinson, director at the University of California Santa Cruz Año Nuevo Reserve, said it is not uncommon to see "some" dead baby sea lions around this time of year; however, he said the number observed this month is "alarming." Additional coverage by KSBW, Newsweek, SFGate, SFist, and other outlets.

Embedded on a research cruise in the Antarctic, a journalist joins a scientists’ “summer camp” led by UC Santa Cruz researchers.

KPBS spoke with Chris Benner, faculty director of the Institute for Social Transformation, about findings from a report he recently coauthored on equitable economic development opportunities for lithium in California's Imperial Valley. 

The Good Times ran a detailed feature story celebrating The Humanities Institute's Deep Read Program, now in its fifth year. This year's edition featured Hernan Diaz’s bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Trust.